Water, Sewer and Storm Water Rates

Water $3.30/1,000 gallons (first 50,000 gallons)

Sewer  $7.50/1,000 gallons (summer rate six months)
              $8.00/1000 gallons (winter rate six months)

Sewer Service Charge $1.50 quarterly

Water Service Charge $13,80 quarterly (5/8 inch meter)

Storm Water Charge $27.50 quarterly
 1 ERU (Equivalent Runoff Unit) Single Family

Ground Water 101
Use Less Water
Storm Water Contamination - Protect Your Source
Ground Water Facts
Storm Water Proclamation

Wisconsin Groundwater Facts
Wisconsin has approximately 1.2 quadrillion gallons of groundwater.
Over 70% of Wisconsin residents use groundwater as their main source of water.
Total Groundwater use in Wisconsin totals about 1,073 million gallons per day.
Wisconsin has about 850,000 private wells.
Wisconsin has over 12,000 public water systems including over 600 municipal water systems
Rainfall over Wisconsin averages 32 inches annually but only 6-10 inches  of it soaks in to become groundwater.

Fox Valley Area Groundwater Facts
Northeast Wisconsin has declining groundwater levels that are up to 3 feet a year.
Arsenic  levels have increased due to declining groundwater levels.
About 50% of the Fox Cities area population is served by groundwater.

WHY CONSERVE WATER?

The Village of Kimberly recently adopted a Water Conservation Ordinance. 

The Conservation Ordinance states that you can only water your lawns with sprinklers on even or odd numbered days, coinciding with your home address.  Thus, 132 South Willow Street can only water their lawn on even numbered days of the month.

In addition, you CANNOT water your lawn between 11:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m.  This is due to the heavy evaporation which occurs during this time of the day.  Research shows that the majority of the water used on lawns and plants during this time of the day evaporates before it can permeate the soils.  In other words, the water is wasted.  Watering in the morning or the evening is much more beneficial to the lawn.

Kimberly Water customers enjoy the low cost availability of quality water, which we pump from an aquifer deep below the earth's surface.  Our wells are presently about 760 feet deep!  The same large aquifer is the source of clean water for over half of the groundwater utilities in Wisconsin.  So this is not "our" aquifer, but an aquifer shared by many residents in Wisconsin.

Many professionals believe that with present usage and growth patterns, this precious resource will be inadequate to meet our needs in about 50 years.  That means when our children are getting ready to retire, this will be a huge issue for society to face.   Some water utilities have already taken steps to both safeguard, and preserve, this precious resource.

We can all play a role in protecting the aquifer through conservation.  The new lawn watering restriction that Kimberly has recently adopted is intended to help customers maintain healthy lawns and plants, while using water efficiently.  Watering lawns in the morning or evening is more effective for the plants and reduces evaporation, ultimately using much less water to do the same job.  Restricting watering to every other day will conserve further and help reduce the demands on the water system during the dog days of summer.

The criteria used for the ordinance was developed by the American Water Works Association (AWWA) and is being used by many other communities.  Our neighbors in Combined Locks and Darboy have already adopted the ordinance, and Little Chute is presently considering the same.  It will not only be uniform, but consistently applied.

Please do your part to help conserve this precious, finite resource.